3. It is said also to be a bird which copulates indiscriminately, and that the male bird rushes eagerly on the female, and burns with unrestrained desires. Wherefore it has been thought suitable to compare this impure malicious and deceitful creature with the adversary and circumventor of the human race, with him who is the arch-deceiver and author of impurity. Sidenote: Gen. iii. 4, 5. Sidenote: Exod. v. 2. Sidenote: Num. xvi. 2. Sidenote: Exod. xxxii. 1. Sidenote: S. Matt. xxvii. 23–25. Sidenote: 1 Sam. viii. 5. 4. _The partridge then cried_, he that is, who derives his name from destroying[168]: even Satan, which in Latin means the adversary[169]. He cried first in Eve, he cried in Cain, he cried in ♦Pharaoh, in Dathan, Abiram, ♦Korah. He cried in the Jews, when they demanded gods to be made for them, while the law was being given to Moses. He cried again, when they said of the Saviour, _Let Him be crucified, let Him be crucified_, and, _His blood be on us and on our children_. He cried, when they required that a king should be given them, that they might revolt from the Lord God their King. He cried in every one who was vain and faithless. Sidenote: Gen. i. 27. Sidenote: Jer. xvii. 11. Sidenote: Isa. lxiii. 1. 5. And by these cries he gathered to himself a people whom he had not created; for God made man after His own likeness and image, and the Devil drew man to himself by the allurements of his voice: He gathered to himself the nations of the Gentiles, _getting riches not by right_[170]. Wherefore it is a common saying concerning the rich and covetous man, that he is a partridge gathering riches not by right. But my Jesus, as a good Judge, does all things with righteousness[171], for He came saying, as it is written, _I speak righteousness and judgement[172] of salvation_. Sidenote: Gen. iv. 10. Sidenote: Exod. xiv. 15. Sidenote: Josh. i. 1. Sidenote: Ps. cxix. 146. Sidenote: Isa. xl. 6. Sidenote: Prov. ix. 5. Sidenote: Hab. ii. 11. Sidenote: S. Matt. xxvii. 46. Sidenote: S. Luke xxiii. 43. Sidenote: Jer. xvii. 11.